This is a very common policy. Their concern typically stems from someone, typically not a computer admin, who created policy is mis/ill-informed or just afraid of computers. I worked for IT at a school district for a little while, and basically the administration believed that if something wasn't approved by every vendor in the chain it couldn't be deemed reliable and would almost certainly ruin something. The same is true of workstations at a number of large corporations.
In my experience there's almost no plan of acceptance in place, and that new software is driven solely from deals with vendors. A common work-around that I've seen is to simply use a version of the program that doesn't use an installer, but rather is just copied to an arbitrary folder and ran. This usually satisfies the semantics enough to be allowed. That's just my experience though. Thanks, Fargo John Kubie wrote: > Today I went to a local high school to do a guest lecture. My > software works like an electronic atlas, and the plan was for the > students to do sheep brain dissections and to have a laptop with the > software installed to use as a resource. > > As we were setting up my host teacher told me that she hadn't > realized that I wanted to install software, and that there was a > strict rule against installing any software on the laptops. (pc > laptops). > > On my next visit, tomorrow, I think I can deal with this by running > the program off of CDs. > > My question: > > What is the concern of the computer administrators and is there any > way to alleviate their concerns and deal with this? > > John Kubie > _______________________________________________ > Unsubscribe or switch delivery mode: > <http://www.realsoftware.com/support/listmanager/> > > Search the archives: > <http://support.realsoftware.com/listarchives/lists.html> > > _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe or switch delivery mode: <http://www.realsoftware.com/support/listmanager/> Search the archives: <http://support.realsoftware.com/listarchives/lists.html>
